NAME

       b2m - convert old Emacs Rmail Babyl format to mbox format

SYNOPSIS

       b2m < babyl-file > mbox-file

DESCRIPTION

       b2m  accepts  Babyl  format mail (as used by older versions of Rmail in GNU Emacs) on standard input, and
       converts it to mbox format on standard output.  Babyl was the storage format used by Rmail prior to Emacs
       23.1.  Since then, it uses standard mbox format.  This program is distributed with GNU Emacs.

OPTIONS

       The program accepts unambiguous abbreviations for long option names.

       -V, --version
              Display version information.

       -h, --help
              Display basic usage information.

SEE ALSO

       The Babyl format is described in the file etc/BABYL in the Emacs distribution.  Rmail  is  documented  in
       the GNU Emacs manual, which  you  can  read  using Info, either from Emacs or as a standalone program.

AUTHORS

       b2m  was  originally  written  by Ed Wilkinson.  Francesco Potorti updated it according to the GNU coding
       standards.

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of  this  document  provided  the  copyright
       notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.

       Permission  is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this document under the conditions for
       verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under  the  terms  of  a
       permission notice identical to this one.

       Permission  is  granted to copy and distribute translations of this document into another language, under
       the above conditions for modified versions, except that  this  permission  notice  may  be  stated  in  a
       translation approved by the Free Software Foundation.

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